Reports API - POST subscribe to a report

Subscribes the specified users to the specified report. All existing subscriptions remain intact.

The request consumes and produces an application/json payload.

POST	ManagedDynatrace for Government	`https://{your-domain}/e/{your-environment-id}/api/config/v1/reports/{id}/subscribe`
	SaaS	`https://{your-environment-id}.live.dynatrace.com/api/config/v1/reports/{id}/subscribe`
	Environment ActiveGate	`https://{your-activegate-domain}/e/{your-environment-id}/api/config/v1/reports/{id}/subscribe`

Authentication

To execute this request, you need an access token with WriteConfig scope.

To learn how to obtain and use it, see Tokens and authentication.

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description	In	Required
id	string	The ID of the report to subscribe to.	path	required
body	ReportSubscriptions	The JSON body of the request. Contains a list of new subscribers.	body	optional

Request body objects

The `ReportSubscriptions` object

Configuration of a report subscription.

Element Type Description Required

schedule

string

Element	Type	Description	Required
schedule	string	The schedule of the subscription. Weekly subscribers receive the report every Monday at midnight. Monthly subscribers receive the report on the first Monday of the month at midnight. The element can hold these values `MONTH` `WEEK`	required
recipients	string[]	A list of the recipients. You can specify email addresses or Dynatrace user IDs here.	required

The schedule of the subscription.

Weekly subscribers receive the report every Monday at midnight.
Monthly subscribers receive the report on the first Monday of the month at midnight.

The element can hold these values

MONTH
WEEK

required

recipients

string[]

A list of the recipients.

You can specify email addresses or Dynatrace user IDs here.

required

Request body JSON model

This is a model of the request body, showing the possible elements. It has to be adjusted for usage in an actual request.

json
{
  "schedule": "WEEK",
  "recipients": [
    "demo@email.com",
    "demo2@email.com"
  ]
}

Response

Response codes

Code	Type	Description
201	EntityShortRepresentation	Success. The new subscriptions have been created. The response body contains the report ID.
400	ErrorEnvelope	Failed. The input is invalid.

Response body objects

The `EntityShortRepresentation` object

The short representation of a Dynatrace entity.

Element	Type	Description
id	string	The ID of the Dynatrace entity.
name	string	The name of the Dynatrace entity.
description	string	A short description of the Dynatrace entity.

Response body JSON model

json
{
  "id": "6a98d7bc-abb9-44f8-ae6a-73e68e71812a",
  "name": "Dynatrace entity",
  "description": "Dynatrace entity for the REST API example"
}

Example

In this example, the request updates the report from the POST request example. It adds the weekly subscriptions for the Dynatrace user ryan.white.

The API token is passed in the Authorization header.

Curl

bash
curl -X POST \
  https://mySampleEnv.live.dynatrace.com/api/config/v1/reports/f78f78f5-00bd-4cc1-9e8b-ecfd1e379a73/subscribe \
  -H 'Accept: application/json' \
  -H 'Authorization: Api-Token dt0c01.abc123.abcdefjhij1234567890' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "schedule": "WEEK",
    "recipients": [
      "ryan.white"
    ]
  }
'

Request URL

plaintext
https://mySampleEnv.live.dynatrace.com/api/config/v1/reports/f78f78f5-00bd-4cc1-9e8b-ecfd1e379a73/subscribe

Request body

json
{
  "schedule": "WEEK",
  "recipients": [
    "ryan.white"
  ]
}

Response body

json
{
  "id": "f78f78f5-00bd-4cc1-9e8b-ecfd1e379a73"
}

Response code

201